Direction of Peak Gust

[Mattk]

Should the direction of the peak gust (for say today) be available via the @YYYYMMDDhhmm specifier inside a Selector?

Something like "[wind0dir-avg@20180204022950.0:--] Degrees" works manually with the @ specifier derived from [wind0wind-dmaxtime]

but missing something (simple) in the syntax trying to include it all in 1 function such as the following

[wind0dir-avg@{*[wind0wind-dmaxtime]*0}.0:--]

[admin]

Currently we don't support nested template variable replacements. This would need large changes in the processing of the templates.

But your request on the "peak wind speed direction" is making sense. I will think how to tangle this.

[admin]

I incorporated a nested variable replacement limited to 2 levels, so that your request can be handled:

Example 1:

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[wind0wind-max@[th0temp-ymaxtime.aj:--].1:--]

This will report the wind gust max at the hour with the highest temperature of the year. "[th0temp-ymaxtime.aj:--]" reports the first 10 digits of the time stamp of the highest temp of the year, in my case this returns "2018012418" which is January 2018, 24 at 6 PM. Resulting template variable "[wind0wind-max@2018012418.1:--]" then returns in my case "13.0" degrees Celsius.

Example 2:

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[wind0dir-avg@[wind0wind-mmaxtime.aj:--]=endir:--]

This will report main wind direction in the hour in which the maximum gust of the month happened. "[wind0wind-mmaxtime.aj:--]" reports the first 10 digits of the time stamp of the highest wind gust of the month, in my case this returns "2018020111" which is February 2018, 1 at 11 AM. Resulting template variable "[wind0dir-avg@2018020111=endir:--]" then returns in my case "NW" as direction which is indeed our main storm direction..

I hope this add on does help. Updates version of Meteobridge has just been released.

[Mattk]

Thanks Boris, that looks good. I should have a Lufft WS200 early next week to check out so hopefully it will work with the WS600 settings/variables for wind only?

[admin]

Why not. If not, I will debug

[ruzzi.f@gmail.com]

hi Boris, this looks gorgeous!!!!
how would it be the sintax to have the direction of the wind peak of the last 10 minutes?
thanks
fabio

[Mattk]

Trying to think of the relevance of the "peak gust direction" over a 10 minute period?

[ruzzi.f@gmail.com]

hi matt. actually it is very relevant.
sometimes wind main direction can be for example NW (avg wind last 10 min), but the stronger gush do not come from NW but maybe from N.
It is very frequent when wind is gushy, so it is useful to know from which direction came the stronger gush in last period (10 minutes)
thanks
fabio

[ruzzi.f@gmail.com]

please have a look to my site:
207.154.209.210/pippo
you can see 3 compasses showing:
1) current wind & direction
2) avg wind & direction last 10 minutes
3) max wind & direction last 10 minutes

Data are updated every 5 seconds
All data are very relevant for sailing for example.
At the moment i am uploading 5 of the 6 data correctly through meteobridge pro, but i cannot upload the wind direction of the max gust .
Is the new template capable to create the wind direction of the max gust in the last 10 minutes?
thanks
fabio

[Mattk]

But the peak gust direction in the past 10 minutes can be nothing more than an instantaneous blip which can have little to no relevance over the wind cycle and typically when the wind is gusty it does generally angle from a reasonably constant direction and this is one reason why "range" can be more meaningful to understanding the real/actual conditions.

[ruzzi.f@gmail.com]

matt, depends on the reason why you need to know wind conditions.
Our scope is sailing. And to know that when you have peak, the direction is different from the average direction, is very relevant, even if it is an istant. Also the peak wind intensity is an istantaneous data.
I make an example.
Immagine that wind average is 15 knots and direction average is 315 degrees. Sometimes happens that wind is gusty, and you have peaks even with 25-30 knots. It is important to know if during this peak the direction is similar to the average or.....maybe coming from 350-360 degrees!
Fabio

[admin]

how would it be the sintax to have the direction of the wind peak of the last 10 minutes?

The implementation shown above uses the "@" pattern to address data from the USB storage of a MB PRO that holds all the weather data history. This storage is limited to an hourly resolution. So this way you cannot get data from smaller time frames.

In addition we have a cache of live data which is covering the last x hours where we have data on a per minute base. I will think how to address data from there. Please give me a few days to explore some ideas. I cannot promise a solution but will start thinking...

[ruzzi.f@gmail.com]

thank you very much!!!
It would be really great and useful

[Mattk]

matt, depends on the reason why you need to know wind conditions.
Our scope is sailing. And to know that when you have peak, the direction is different from the average direction, is very relevant, even if it is an istant. Also the peak wind intensity is an istantaneous data.
I make an example.
Immagine that wind average is 15 knots and direction average is 315 degrees. Sometimes happens that wind is gusty, and you have peaks even with 25-30 knots. It is important to know if during this peak the direction is similar to the average or.....maybe coming from 350-360 degrees!
Fabio

Ok so peak gust wind direction in the last 10 minutes will be in hindsight, how will this benefit you? If you are sailing wouldn't some data on a say a 5 sec basis be of more benefit?

[wsnoordbergum]

Any chance of this being implemented in the standard meteobridge?
See also:
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=12521

Thanks